former federal prosecutor andy mccarthy is standing by. first, david spunt who has been covering this all along, this very quick verdict. very quick verdict. we re talking three hours and ten minutes. when you have a verdict that quick, it s not favorable to the defendant. steve bannon, the former white house adviser to former president donald trump convicted on two counts of criminal contempt of congress. willful failure to appear before testimony before january 6. guilty. count two, willful failure to provide records guilty. steve bannon s team didn t put on a defense. bannon did not testify in his own defense, which was thought that he would. the government put on a case for about a day. jury selection began just on monday, a few days ago. this was an incredibly quick trial. steve bannon s team was upset. they filed a motion. last night in front of millions in the january 6 committee hearing, the committee played this audio clip of bannon from october of 2020. listen.
2020 director of press communications and the former campaign surrogate president biden. sandra: new york republican gubernatorial candidate zelden hitting the trail one day after he was attacked on stage by a man trying to stab him. quite something to see that video. john: the video no question is shocking. we ll get reaction as well. lawmaker talking to reporters last hour about the shocking experience, and the need to reform bail laws. put the suspect back on the streets shortly after the attack. only one option. dramatic video showing the man armed with the weapon approached zelden on stage. he was charged with felony assault, but then released from custody without bail. outcome that zelden predicted would happen due to the new york lenient bail laws. sandra: and the man who helped sub sue the suspect will speak with us in a moment. and andy mccarthy is here to weigh in on the punishment he should be facing, and what do we know about the alleged attacker? well,
steve bannon s team did not call any witnesses. so it was a quick trial. steve bannon and his team left the federal courthouse this afternoon after a jury of his peers found him guilty of two counts of criminal contempt of congress. a rare charge last brought a conviction with former nixon aid g. gordon liddy back in 1974. respect the decision. we may have lost a battle here today, but we are not going to lose this war. bannon sat and listened as the jury foreperson read guilty to the charges of willful failure to appear for testimony and willful failure to provide records. he ignored a subpoena from the january 6th committee last year. the same committee last night, bret, played audio of bannon from halloween 2020 just days before the presidential election. listen here. and what trump is going to do is declare victory. is he going to declare victory. that doesn t mean [inaudible] bannon says he did not cooperate because he was covered by executive privilege for his
possible the river there, set to crest within hours. plus, four possible storm systems developing in the tropics. catastrophic flooding in pakistan has killed more than a thousand people. entire apartment buildings washed away, 500,000 homes destroyed. the urgent plea for international help the nfl rookie cut from the buffalo bills amid accusations of rape his accuser and her father now speaking out. it s a step in the right direction towards justice. and one last championship run serena williams begins what is likely her final quest for tennis glory. this is nbc nightly news with kate snow. good evening. the question for u.s. intelligence, do the classified documents taken from former president trump s mar-a-lago home, pose any potential risk to national security if they were disclosed? the director of national intelligence confirming her office will do an assessment while a parallel department of justice criminal investigation continues. members of congress
secretary gina raimondo. plus, the republicans leadership challenge. get murkowski out of here because she s not a republican. how much influence does former president trump have on the gop? maryland s republican governor rr larry hogan joins me. plus, pat cipollone testifies after cassidy hutchinson s explosive appearance. please don t go up to the capitol. we re going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that happen. i ll talk to committee member congresswoman stephanie murphy about what cipollone told the committee. elon musk wants out of his deal to buy twitter over a dispute about spam accounts. he s just reaching out to something to blame. we re hear from tara swisher co-host of the box media s pivot podcast. joining me are hallie jackson, daniel la gibba and rich lowry, editor of national review. welcome to sunday. it s meet the press. from nbc news in washington, the longest-running show in television history, this is meet the p